NC BL 09/00/1999 Table: Knoxville, TN, Bulletin 3095-69, February 1999 Table A-1. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all workers(2), all industries, Knoxville, TN, February 1999 All industries Occupation(3) Percentiles Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All occupations....................................................... $13.39 2.3% $6.35 $8.00 $11.25 $16.55 $23.83 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 13.52 2.5 6.56 8.24 11.50 16.61 24.09 White-collar occupations............................................ 16.51 2.8 7.34 9.42 14.42 21.55 28.49 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 17.42 2.8 8.07 10.50 15.62 22.56 29.16 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 20.41 2.4 11.65 14.78 19.47 25.19 29.81 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 22.14 2.6 13.58 17.32 21.44 26.43 31.29 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 26.76 4.8 16.20 20.73 26.56 32.25 36.77 Civil engineers............................................. 27.70 12.1 17.56 22.50 26.94 35.00 36.54 Industrial engineers........................................ 20.48 7.9 13.46 15.91 20.59 24.02 26.74 Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 28.62 7.1 16.63 24.04 28.59 33.81 37.51 Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 23.44 8.0 15.88 17.33 21.95 25.75 34.21 Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 23.14 11.6 17.05 17.33 18.75 28.85 36.93 Natural scientists............................................ 24.58 10.0 17.50 20.19 22.55 30.03 34.42 Health related occupations.................................... 19.91 5.4 14.02 16.04 18.67 23.14 26.92 Registered nurses........................................... 16.97 2.1 13.23 14.50 17.00 18.82 20.91 Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 22.68 6.2 14.86 19.32 23.19 27.12 30.33 Elementary school teachers.................................. 24.73 4.7 18.31 20.52 24.09 27.79 34.26 Secondary school teachers................................... 23.94 2.3 18.38 20.59 24.04 26.97 29.16 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 12.95 6.4 10.05 10.91 12.58 14.76 16.78 Social workers.............................................. 13.03 6.6 10.05 10.91 12.89 15.00 16.78 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 18.69 6.6 13.61 15.00 18.39 20.87 26.37 Technical occupations........................................... 15.37 4.0 10.22 11.70 13.88 18.20 22.97 Licensed practical nurses................................... 11.61 1.5 9.80 10.57 11.79 12.27 13.25 Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 13.68 6.1 10.06 11.06 13.70 15.97 18.20 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 15.53 14.4 8.67 10.89 14.03 19.14 22.40 Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 17.84 10.6 12.05 13.58 17.80 22.56 23.82 Drafters.................................................... 16.35 10.6 11.65 12.76 15.25 17.25 25.91 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 24.35 5.7 12.78 15.86 21.61 30.49 37.41 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 28.14 5.8 15.86 20.12 27.43 34.52 38.51 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 27.39 2.8 21.61 27.38 27.64 28.62 28.62 Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 22.29 12.1 14.38 15.30 20.93 26.49 38.51 Administrators, education and related fields................ 32.05 6.6 22.69 29.16 33.86 34.78 37.35 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 33.79 10.7 16.55 21.35 31.20 37.77 59.17 Management related occupations................................ 18.09 9.2 11.87 12.63 15.96 21.08 28.76 Other financial officers.................................... 16.91 6.4 12.56 13.22 14.42 19.29 26.92 Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 25.78 22.5 12.30 14.38 25.73 40.62 40.62 Sales occupations................................................. 11.93 8.3 5.58 6.24 8.93 14.80 21.94 Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 16.14 15.8 7.75 9.38 13.80 20.53 23.60 Sales occupations, other business services.................. $20.02 15.7% $9.80 $14.44 $16.50 $20.68 $37.64 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 19.52 8.9 10.50 12.29 17.06 21.94 31.25 Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats..................... 14.57 9.4 5.15 10.00 12.01 20.37 23.36 Cashiers.................................................... 6.33 2.7 5.50 5.75 6.00 6.60 7.75 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 10.23 2.3 7.00 8.00 9.35 11.75 15.25 Secretaries................................................. 10.51 4.3 7.66 8.65 9.91 12.26 13.79 Receptionists............................................... 8.08 3.4 6.63 7.00 8.25 8.65 9.35 Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 13.38 17.0 8.23 8.75 12.50 17.67 18.25 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.08 8.2 8.00 8.20 10.50 13.18 15.85 Telephone operators......................................... 9.43 11.6 7.22 7.22 8.98 9.23 15.64 Dispatchers................................................. 10.35 17.0 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) Production coordinators..................................... 13.70 5.5 11.46 12.13 13.44 16.36 16.50 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.28 6.7 8.00 8.61 10.00 11.67 11.75 Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.44 5.8 6.59 8.50 9.75 10.50 11.75 Meter readers............................................... 14.74 6.4 7.00 15.65 16.12 16.49 16.97 Investigators and adjusters except insurance................ 10.65 4.7 8.68 9.63 10.71 11.25 11.70 Bill and account collectors................................. 12.21 9.9 8.00 9.34 10.65 13.58 16.77 General office clerks....................................... 10.04 5.3 7.50 8.00 9.23 10.98 14.00 Bank tellers................................................ 8.08 3.1 6.88 7.25 7.83 8.58 10.40 Data entry keyers........................................... 8.43 4.8 6.49 7.09 8.34 10.00 10.36 Teachers' aides............................................. 7.87 2.4 7.52 7.52 7.53 7.70 9.46 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 9.85 7.0 7.00 8.75 9.05 11.03 13.44 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 11.85 2.2 7.01 8.90 11.01 14.00 17.26 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 14.89 3.3 9.25 11.37 14.14 17.52 21.16 Automobile mechanics........................................ 19.24 11.2 12.00 14.00 20.47 21.16 28.79 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 15.88 4.1 11.53 14.08 16.43 17.63 19.50 Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 12.52 7.3 8.40 10.25 11.84 15.72 17.01 Electrical power installers and repairers................... 14.20 6.2 11.45 11.76 12.93 15.79 20.42 Supervisors, production occupations......................... 18.36 8.2 11.08 15.88 17.26 20.24 27.61 Machinists.................................................. 15.04 5.4 12.41 12.41 16.50 16.57 16.94 Inspectors, testers, and graders............................ 12.16 3.7 8.00 10.00 11.78 13.48 16.25 Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 12.19 14.2 8.96 9.53 12.45 13.42 17.71 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.54 3.5 6.86 8.75 10.50 12.49 14.08 Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 11.01 2.7 9.70 9.76 10.85 11.81 13.38 Textile sewing machine operators............................ 8.37 4.7 5.88 6.92 9.06 9.06 9.53 Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.13 10.0 6.59 7.21 8.75 10.04 14.49 Furnace, kiln, and oven operators, except food.............. 13.52 7.0 8.83 11.44 15.04 15.18 15.60 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 10.91 6.4 7.00 8.67 10.84 12.69 14.13 Assemblers.................................................. 10.09 3.6 8.47 9.23 10.08 10.66 12.71 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.23 7.7 6.70 9.07 12.49 13.15 14.07 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 11.78 4.0 7.50 9.00 11.00 13.31 17.00 Truck drivers............................................... 12.04 6.7 7.25 8.32 11.13 15.41 21.17 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.09 6.5 8.52 9.54 11.00 12.50 14.07 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.54 3.7 6.15 7.02 8.82 11.09 14.07 Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm.................... $9.67 2.7% $6.85 $8.80 $9.92 $10.46 $12.02 Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C.................................................... 13.52 11.7 7.65 11.09 13.17 16.40 20.23 Helpers, construction trades................................ 10.45 8.4 8.00 8.00 11.00 11.70 14.63 Construction laborers....................................... 11.04 15.7 6.50 7.93 12.81 13.65 14.61 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.16 3.7 5.45 6.58 7.90 9.89 10.56 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 11.19 7.5 7.30 8.50 10.14 14.50 15.00 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.09 8.0 5.89 6.27 7.70 10.35 10.49 Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 9.41 11.6 7.00 7.50 8.20 11.98 14.07 Service occupations................................................. 7.51 3.1 2.13 5.75 7.00 8.69 11.94 Protective service occupations................................ 10.58 8.3 5.85 8.00 10.50 12.46 16.43 Firefighting occupations.................................... 11.25 5.6 8.46 9.98 11.25 12.46 13.57 Police and detectives, public service....................... 13.46 5.8 11.48 12.04 12.46 13.41 18.48 Guards and police except public service..................... 8.82 20.2 5.59 5.85 7.35 8.00 16.61 Food service occupations...................................... 5.92 7.5 2.13 2.13 5.60 8.00 10.10 Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations....... 14.63 11.9 8.18 10.82 11.75 19.02 24.97 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.67 8.8 2.13 2.13 2.13 3.25 3.75 Cooks....................................................... 8.17 4.7 5.75 7.00 8.14 9.25 10.10 Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.27 4.4 6.05 6.35 7.00 8.00 8.96 Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 4.43 14.8 2.13 2.13 5.35 6.23 6.87 Health service occupations.................................... $7.68 2.1% $6.44 $7.00 $7.37 $8.11 $9.22 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 7.54 2.1 6.47 7.00 7.37 8.08 8.97 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 7.90 5.0 5.89 6.70 7.19 8.65 11.61 Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers.......... 9.45 8.2 7.50 8.65 8.65 11.48 12.01 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.97 7.1 5.75 6.31 7.55 8.50 12.71 Personal service occupations.................................. 6.77 4.8 5.25 5.50 6.39 7.17 10.10 Supervisors, personal service occupations................... 8.43 9.4 6.25 6.97 7.40 10.63 11.94 Service occupations, N.E.C.................................. 6.08 5.2 3.25 6.00 6.50 6.75 7.00 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 The positional statistics for this occupation were suppressed because some were below the minimum wage. In this update survey, an average decrease in mean wages for this occupation was applied to the positional statistics, causing the 10th percentile to go below the minimum wage. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-2. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all workers(2), private industry and State and local government, Knoxville, TN, February 1999 Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Percentiles Percentiles Mean RSE Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 10 25 Median 75 90 50 50 All occupations....................................................... $12.83 2.8% $6.01 $7.65 $10.85 $15.86 $22.50 $15.86 4.0% $7.85 $9.46 $12.92 $20.91 $27.41 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 12.93 3.0 6.25 7.89 11.00 15.90 22.56 15.88 4.0 7.85 9.46 12.92 20.99 27.41 White-collar occupations............................................ 15.92 3.6 6.86 9.00 13.74 20.32 28.22 18.27 4.4 8.57 11.01 17.75 23.52 28.99 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 17.05 3.6 8.00 10.25 15.00 21.41 29.22 18.30 4.4 8.57 11.02 17.76 23.52 29.02 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 20.32 2.8 12.05 14.49 18.53 25.31 30.64 20.59 4.4 10.17 16.12 20.82 24.72 28.49 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 22.55 3.0 14.25 17.24 20.96 27.00 33.23 21.58 4.6 11.80 17.75 22.30 25.05 29.38 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 26.97 4.9 15.96 20.73 26.75 32.53 37.03 - - - - - - - Industrial engineers........................................ 20.48 7.9 13.46 15.91 20.59 24.02 26.74 - - - - - - - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 28.62 7.1 16.63 24.04 28.59 33.81 37.51 - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 24.41 8.0 17.33 18.75 25.75 27.69 34.30 - - - - - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 23.38 12.2 17.05 17.33 18.75 31.73 37.65 - - - - - - - Natural scientists............................................ 26.75 14.4 13.50 18.03 29.22 33.20 35.33 - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 19.72 5.8 14.10 16.11 18.67 23.14 26.68 - - - - - - - Registered nurses........................................... 16.87 2.2 13.23 14.44 16.99 18.65 20.85 - - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - - - - - - 22.72 6.2 14.86 19.36 23.19 27.17 30.33 Elementary school teachers.................................. - - - - - - - 24.77 4.7 18.35 20.52 24.09 27.79 34.26 Secondary school teachers................................... - - - - - - - 23.94 2.3 18.38 20.59 24.04 26.97 29.16 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - - 13.63 6.8 10.73 11.10 13.57 15.38 16.83 Social workers.............................................. - - - - - - - 13.81 6.9 10.91 11.80 13.58 15.39 16.83 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 18.69 6.6 13.61 15.00 18.39 20.87 26.37 - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 15.97 4.1 10.90 12.02 14.25 18.72 23.63 11.46 7.1 7.50 8.67 11.04 13.70 14.74 Licensed practical nurses................................... 11.78 1.6 9.99 10.80 11.80 12.46 13.49 - - - - - - - Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 14.50 6.1 10.90 11.96 14.13 16.43 18.20 10.55 12.3 7.50 7.50 10.63 13.70 13.70 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 17.37 13.7 10.89 12.02 15.92 20.39 32.48 - - - - - - - Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 18.29 10.9 12.20 13.88 18.56 22.56 23.82 - - - - - - - Drafters.................................................... 16.35 10.6 11.65 12.76 15.25 17.25 25.91 - - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 24.80 6.5 13.27 15.86 21.35 30.13 37.77 23.32 11.4 11.87 13.99 22.09 32.18 34.78 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 27.80 7.5 15.30 18.13 24.83 32.22 40.99 29.02 7.2 17.91 23.42 29.16 34.63 37.35 Administrators and officials, public administration......... - - - - - - - 27.39 2.8 21.61 27.38 27.64 28.62 28.62 Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 23.05 12.8 14.38 14.38 20.93 27.18 38.51 - - - - - - - Administrators, education and related fields................ - - - - - - - 32.05 6.6 22.69 29.16 33.86 34.78 37.35 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 33.64 11.0 16.55 20.93 31.20 37.41 59.17 - - - - - - - Management related occupations................................ 19.44 10.8 12.50 13.22 16.00 24.58 29.81 15.41 10.8 11.66 11.87 12.78 19.29 21.08 Other financial officers.................................... 15.80 7.7 11.93 12.93 13.63 14.42 26.92 - - - - - - - Sales occupations................................................. 11.95 8.4 5.58 6.24 9.00 15.00 21.94 - - - - - - - Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 16.14 15.8 7.75 9.38 13.80 20.53 23.60 - - - - - - - Sales occupations, other business services.................. 20.02 15.7 9.80 14.44 16.50 20.68 37.64 - - - - - - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 19.52 8.9 10.50 12.29 17.06 21.94 31.25 - - - - - - - Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats..................... 14.57 9.4 5.15 10.00 12.01 20.37 23.36 - - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... $6.31 2.7% $5.50 $5.75 $6.00 $6.55 $7.75 - - - - - - - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 10.16 2.7 6.99 8.00 9.25 11.67 15.25 $10.47 3.7% $7.52 $8.24 $9.56 $12.26 $15.30 Secretaries................................................. 10.22 6.3 7.50 8.50 9.79 12.01 13.64 10.89 6.2 8.29 9.43 10.22 13.13 14.26 Receptionists............................................... 8.18 3.6 6.75 7.50 8.25 8.65 9.39 - - - - - - - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 13.38 17.0 8.23 8.75 12.50 17.67 18.25 - - - - - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.33 10.2 8.00 8.10 10.50 13.81 16.12 - - - - - - - Production coordinators..................................... 13.70 5.5 11.46 12.13 13.44 16.36 16.50 - - - - - - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.28 6.7 8.00 8.61 10.00 11.67 11.75 - - - - - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.57 5.7 6.94 8.50 9.75 10.50 11.75 - - - - - - - Meter readers............................................... - - - - - - - 14.74 6.4 7.00 15.65 16.12 16.49 16.97 Investigators and adjusters except insurance................ 10.65 4.7 8.68 9.63 10.71 11.25 11.70 - - - - - - - Bill and account collectors................................. 12.20 10.2 8.00 9.34 10.65 13.58 16.77 - - - - - - - General office clerks....................................... 10.08 6.8 7.50 8.00 8.99 11.98 14.00 9.96 8.2 7.35 8.54 9.29 10.46 14.83 Bank tellers................................................ 8.08 3.1 6.88 7.25 7.83 8.58 10.40 - - - - - - - Data entry keyers........................................... 8.43 4.8 6.49 7.09 8.34 10.00 10.36 - - - - - - - Teachers' aides............................................. - - - - - - - 7.87 2.4 7.52 7.52 7.53 7.70 9.46 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 8.85 4.6 7.00 8.00 8.75 9.05 11.03 11.84 6.2 9.24 10.10 11.18 13.44 16.55 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 11.81 2.4 7.00 8.83 11.00 14.00 17.05 12.31 4.9 8.04 9.24 11.43 14.14 18.40 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 15.13 3.8 9.25 11.50 14.37 17.63 21.63 13.79 6.0 8.89 10.37 12.45 16.73 19.76 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 15.88 4.1 11.53 14.08 16.43 17.63 19.50 - - - - - - - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 13.47 10.5 8.40 10.66 12.27 15.72 18.35 - - - - - - - Electrical power installers and repairers................... - - - - - - - 14.48 6.5 11.67 12.12 13.69 15.79 20.42 Supervisors, production occupations......................... 18.36 8.2 11.08 15.88 17.26 20.24 27.61 - - - - - - - Machinists.................................................. 15.04 5.4 12.41 12.41 16.50 16.57 16.94 - - - - - - - Inspectors, testers, and graders............................ 12.16 3.7 8.00 10.00 11.78 13.48 16.25 - - - - - - - Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... - - - - - - - 12.19 14.2 8.96 9.53 12.45 13.42 17.71 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.54 3.5 6.86 8.75 10.47 12.49 14.08 - - - - - - - Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 11.01 2.7 9.70 9.76 10.85 11.81 13.38 - - - - - - - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 8.37 4.7 5.88 6.92 9.06 9.06 9.53 - - - - - - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.13 10.0 6.59 7.21 8.75 10.04 14.49 - - - - - - - Furnace, kiln, and oven operators, except food.............. 13.52 7.0 8.83 11.44 15.04 15.18 15.60 - - - - - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 10.89 6.5 7.00 8.67 10.84 12.69 14.13 - - - - - - - Assemblers.................................................. 10.09 3.6 8.47 9.23 10.08 10.66 12.71 - - - - - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.23 7.7 6.70 9.07 12.49 13.15 14.07 - - - - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 11.86 4.2 7.50 9.18 11.13 13.37 17.00 10.39 6.8 8.21 8.75 9.69 11.17 14.18 Truck drivers............................................... 12.10 7.0 7.25 8.32 11.13 15.41 21.17 - - - - - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.09 6.5 8.52 9.54 11.00 12.50 14.07 - - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.52 4.1 6.00 7.00 8.75 11.09 14.07 9.69 5.5 7.38 7.75 9.44 10.46 13.17 Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C.................................................... 13.56 13.0 7.65 10.63 11.75 16.40 20.23 - - - - - - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 10.45 8.4 8.00 8.00 11.00 11.70 14.63 - - - - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.01 4.0 5.45 6.50 7.88 9.89 10.56 - - - - - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 11.19 7.5 7.30 8.50 10.14 14.50 15.00 - - - - - - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.09 8.0 5.89 6.27 7.70 10.35 10.49 - - - - - - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 9.69 15.6 6.75 7.50 8.00 14.07 14.07 - - - - - - - Service occupations................................................. $6.85 3.5% $2.13 $5.50 $6.78 $7.88 $10.20 $10.17 4.3% $7.03 $8.11 $10.18 $12.04 $12.95 Protective service occupations................................ 8.75 20.1 5.77 5.85 7.35 8.00 16.61 11.68 3.6 9.20 10.22 11.32 12.53 14.70 Firefighting occupations.................................... - - - - - - - 11.25 5.6 8.46 9.98 11.25 12.46 13.57 Police and detectives, public service....................... - - - - - - - 13.46 5.8 11.48 12.04 12.46 13.41 18.48 Guards and police except public service..................... 8.67 21.1 5.59 5.85 7.35 8.00 16.61 - - - - - - - Food service occupations...................................... 5.87 7.7 2.13 2.13 5.50 7.79 10.10 - - - - - - - Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations....... 14.63 11.9 8.18 10.82 11.75 19.02 24.97 - - - - - - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.67 8.8 2.13 2.13 2.13 3.25 3.75 - - - - - - - Cooks....................................................... 8.19 5.1 5.74 7.00 8.14 9.25 10.25 - - - - - - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.31 4.4 6.05 6.75 7.05 8.00 8.96 - - - - - - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 4.35 15.4 2.13 2.13 5.35 6.04 6.87 - - - - - - - Health service occupations.................................... 7.68 2.1 6.44 7.00 7.37 8.11 9.22 - - - - - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 7.54 2.1 6.47 7.00 7.37 8.08 8.97 - - - - - - - Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 7.49 5.8 5.75 6.50 7.00 7.74 10.23 8.88 6.7 6.90 7.55 8.65 10.56 12.35 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.91 9.4 5.65 6.00 7.00 8.68 12.96 8.11 8.5 6.45 7.55 7.55 7.69 12.35 Personal service occupations.................................. 6.67 5.0 5.25 5.50 6.25 7.00 8.34 - - - - - - - Service occupations, N.E.C.................................. 6.08 5.2 3.25 6.00 6.50 6.75 7.00 - - - - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-3. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers(2), all industries, Knoxville, TN, February 1999 All industries Full-time Part-time Occupation(3) Percentiles Percentiles Mean RSE Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 10 25 Median 75 90 50 50 All occupations....................................................... $13.87 2.4% $6.81 $8.50 $11.66 $17.00 $24.29 $7.08 5.8% $2.13 $5.39 $6.22 $7.96 $11.17 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 13.98 2.5 7.00 8.65 11.80 17.03 24.59 6.90 5.7 2.13 5.15 6.25 8.00 11.78 White-collar occupations............................................ 16.96 2.8 7.70 10.00 15.01 22.25 28.77 9.47 6.6 5.50 6.22 7.50 9.74 16.09 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 17.79 2.8 8.50 10.82 15.96 22.89 29.35 10.18 6.3 6.25 6.46 7.75 12.50 17.28 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 20.59 2.4 11.84 15.00 19.82 25.27 29.97 14.87 8.5 8.53 10.40 14.00 17.65 21.06 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 22.32 2.6 14.00 17.50 21.63 26.58 31.42 16.55 8.6 10.25 13.73 16.00 18.77 23.20 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 26.70 4.8 16.20 20.73 26.50 32.06 36.67 - - - - - - - Civil engineers............................................. 27.02 12.1 17.56 22.50 25.82 32.73 36.54 - - - - - - - Industrial engineers........................................ 20.51 8.0 13.46 15.91 20.59 24.02 26.74 - - - - - - - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 28.62 7.1 16.63 24.04 28.59 33.81 37.51 - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 23.44 8.0 15.88 17.33 21.95 25.75 34.21 - - - - - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 23.14 11.6 17.05 17.33 18.75 28.85 36.93 - - - - - - - Natural scientists............................................ 24.58 10.0 17.50 20.19 22.55 30.03 34.42 - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 20.11 5.4 14.16 16.25 18.84 23.19 26.92 17.08 5.0 13.00 14.25 17.00 19.32 21.60 Registered nurses........................................... 16.91 2.2 13.23 14.50 17.00 18.70 20.84 17.37 4.0 13.31 14.70 17.25 19.42 21.96 Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 22.89 6.2 15.04 19.41 23.19 27.25 30.33 - - - - - - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 24.73 4.7 18.31 20.52 24.09 27.79 34.26 - - - - - - - Secondary school teachers................................... 23.94 2.3 18.38 20.59 24.04 26.97 29.16 - - - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 13.02 7.2 9.38 10.91 11.99 15.23 16.78 - - - - - - - Social workers.............................................. 13.12 7.5 9.38 10.91 12.58 15.23 16.78 - - - - - - - Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 18.69 6.6 13.61 15.00 18.39 20.87 26.37 - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 15.53 4.0 10.50 11.80 13.89 18.20 23.04 10.61 5.7 7.22 9.16 10.00 12.00 14.25 Licensed practical nurses................................... 11.84 1.4 10.14 10.82 11.80 12.50 13.64 - - - - - - - Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 13.77 6.1 10.18 11.17 13.70 15.97 18.20 - - - - - - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 15.53 14.4 8.67 10.89 14.03 19.14 22.40 - - - - - - - Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 17.84 10.6 12.05 13.58 17.80 22.56 23.82 - - - - - - - Drafters.................................................... 16.35 10.6 11.65 12.76 15.25 17.25 25.91 - - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 24.41 5.7 12.78 15.86 21.69 30.49 37.41 - - - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 28.17 5.8 15.86 20.12 27.43 34.52 38.51 - - - - - - - Administrators and officials, public administration......... 27.39 2.8 21.61 27.38 27.64 28.62 28.62 - - - - - - - Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 22.29 12.1 14.38 15.30 20.93 26.49 38.51 - - - - - - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 32.05 6.6 22.69 29.16 33.86 34.78 37.35 - - - - - - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 33.79 10.7 16.55 21.35 31.20 37.77 59.17 - - - - - - - Management related occupations................................ 18.08 9.4 11.87 12.63 15.00 21.08 28.88 - - - - - - - Other financial officers.................................... 16.74 6.6 12.56 13.22 14.42 19.29 26.92 - - - - - - - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 25.78 22.5 12.30 14.38 25.73 40.62 40.62 - - - - - - - Sales occupations................................................. $12.48 8.8% $5.75 $6.54 $10.00 $15.58 $22.08 $8.13 16.6% $5.45 $5.50 $6.00 $7.63 $10.15 Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 16.14 15.8 7.75 9.38 13.80 20.53 23.60 - - - - - - - Sales occupations, other business services.................. 18.04 14.9 9.80 12.50 16.15 20.00 25.55 - - - - - - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 19.52 8.9 10.50 12.29 17.06 21.94 31.25 - - - - - - - Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats..................... 14.57 9.4 5.15 10.00 12.01 20.37 23.36 - - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.42 3.1 5.50 5.75 6.09 6.75 7.75 6.12 2.9 5.45 5.50 6.00 6.20 7.39 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 10.49 2.3 7.44 8.24 9.64 12.02 15.46 7.48 2.0 6.22 6.25 7.25 8.00 9.00 Secretaries................................................. 10.66 4.4 7.78 9.00 10.26 12.46 13.93 - - - - - - - Receptionists............................................... 8.25 3.9 6.75 7.05 8.36 8.65 9.77 - - - - - - - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 13.38 17.0 8.23 8.75 12.50 17.67 18.25 - - - - - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.08 8.2 8.00 8.20 10.50 13.18 15.85 - - - - - - - Dispatchers................................................. 10.35 17.0 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) - - - - - - - Production coordinators..................................... 13.70 5.5 11.46 12.13 13.44 16.36 16.50 - - - - - - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.28 6.7 8.00 8.61 10.00 11.67 11.75 - - - - - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.57 5.7 6.94 8.50 9.75 10.50 11.75 - - - - - - - Meter readers............................................... 14.74 6.4 7.00 15.65 16.12 16.49 16.97 - - - - - - - Investigators and adjusters except insurance................ 10.65 4.7 8.68 9.63 10.71 11.25 11.70 - - - - - - - Bill and account collectors................................. 12.21 9.9 8.00 9.34 10.65 13.58 16.77 - - - - - - - General office clerks....................................... 10.19 5.2 7.50 8.35 9.27 11.23 14.07 - - - - - - - Bank tellers................................................ 8.08 3.1 6.88 7.25 7.83 8.58 10.40 - - - - - - - Data entry keyers........................................... 8.77 3.8 6.99 7.74 8.50 10.11 10.36 - - - - - - - Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 9.96 7.5 7.00 8.75 9.05 11.18 13.44 8.78 1.7 7.50 7.50 9.00 9.00 9.00 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 11.98 2.3 7.25 9.06 11.09 14.07 17.40 7.27 3.2 5.45 6.00 6.85 8.50 9.50 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 14.89 3.3 9.25 11.37 14.14 17.52 21.16 - - - - - - - Automobile mechanics........................................ 19.24 11.2 12.00 14.00 20.47 21.16 28.79 - - - - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 15.88 4.1 11.53 14.08 16.43 17.63 19.50 - - - - - - - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 12.52 7.3 8.40 10.25 11.84 15.72 17.01 - - - - - - - Electrical power installers and repairers................... 14.20 6.2 11.45 11.76 12.93 15.79 20.42 - - - - - - - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 18.36 8.2 11.08 15.88 17.26 20.24 27.61 - - - - - - - Machinists.................................................. 15.04 5.4 12.41 12.41 16.50 16.57 16.94 - - - - - - - Inspectors, testers, and graders............................ 12.16 3.7 8.00 10.00 11.78 13.48 16.25 - - - - - - - Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 12.19 14.2 8.96 9.53 12.45 13.42 17.71 - - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.59 3.5 6.94 8.92 10.64 12.52 14.08 7.24 4.0 6.09 6.55 7.00 7.61 9.00 Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 11.01 2.7 9.70 9.76 10.85 11.81 13.38 - - - - - - - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 8.37 4.7 5.88 6.92 9.06 9.06 9.53 - - - - - - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.13 10.0 6.59 7.21 8.75 10.04 14.49 - - - - - - - Furnace, kiln, and oven operators, except food.............. 13.52 7.0 8.83 11.44 15.04 15.18 15.60 - - - - - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 11.06 6.6 7.05 9.00 10.84 12.91 14.25 - - - - - - - Assemblers.................................................. 10.15 3.7 8.50 9.23 10.18 10.66 12.71 - - - - - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.57 7.6 6.97 10.31 12.49 13.21 14.07 - - - - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 11.80 4.0 7.50 9.01 11.01 13.37 17.00 - - - - - - - Truck drivers............................................... 12.06 6.8 7.25 8.32 11.13 15.41 21.17 - - - - - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ $11.09 6.5% $8.52 $9.54 $11.00 $12.50 $14.07 - - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.83 4.0 6.50 7.38 9.37 11.70 14.07 $7.07 3.7% $5.15 $5.75 $6.75 $8.50 $9.50 Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm.................... 9.67 2.7 6.85 8.80 9.92 10.46 12.02 - - - - - - - Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C.................................................... 13.52 11.7 7.65 11.09 13.17 16.40 20.23 - - - - - - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 10.45 8.4 8.00 8.00 11.00 11.70 14.63 - - - - - - - Construction laborers....................................... 11.04 15.7 6.50 7.93 12.81 13.65 14.61 - - - - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.98 3.7 7.20 7.80 8.80 10.40 10.56 - - - - - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 11.81 9.0 7.25 8.87 12.97 15.00 15.00 - - - - - - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.15 8.3 5.89 6.26 7.70 10.35 10.49 - - - - - - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 9.55 11.8 7.00 7.50 8.30 12.92 14.07 - - - - - - - Service occupations................................................. 8.10 3.4 5.28 6.50 7.44 9.27 12.25 4.71 7.2 2.13 2.13 5.26 6.00 7.50 Protective service occupations................................ 10.67 8.1 5.85 8.00 10.59 12.46 16.61 8.24 19.6 5.59 5.85 7.00 8.00 15.00 Firefighting occupations.................................... 11.25 5.6 8.46 9.98 11.25 12.46 13.57 - - - - - - - Police and detectives, public service....................... 13.46 5.8 11.48 12.04 12.46 13.41 18.48 - - - - - - - Guards and police except public service..................... 8.83 20.8 5.77 5.85 7.35 8.00 16.61 - - - - - - - Food service occupations...................................... 7.03 7.5 2.13 3.30 6.75 8.62 11.50 3.70 11.0 2.13 2.13 2.13 5.30 6.35 Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations....... 15.02 12.4 8.18 10.00 12.21 19.02 24.97 - - - - - - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.75 8.5 2.13 2.13 2.13 3.30 3.75 2.49 11.6 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.13 3.50 Cooks....................................................... 8.50 3.1 6.89 7.50 8.35 9.25 10.25 - - - - - - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 6.46 3.3 5.57 5.75 6.23 6.79 7.64 - - - - - - - Health service occupations.................................... 7.69 2.3 6.47 7.00 7.37 8.12 9.25 - - - - - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 7.53 2.2 6.44 6.95 7.37 8.08 8.97 - - - - - - - Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 8.02 4.9 6.00 7.00 7.35 8.65 12.01 - - - - - - - Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers.......... 9.45 8.2 7.50 8.65 8.65 11.48 12.01 - - - - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.19 6.8 6.00 6.50 7.55 8.68 12.96 - - - - - - - Personal service occupations.................................. 7.06 5.4 5.15 6.00 6.75 7.40 10.63 6.09 5.2 5.35 5.40 5.50 6.25 7.17 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 The positional statistics for this occupation were suppressed because some were below the minimum wage. In this update survey, an average decrease in mean wages for this occupation was applied to the positional statistics, causing the 10th percentile to go below the minimum wage. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings(1) and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only(2), all industries, Knoxville, TN, February 1999 All industries Occupation(3) Mean Weekly earnings Mean Annual earnings weekly annual hours(4) hours Mean RSE Median Mean Median All occupations....................................................... 40.3 $559 2.4% $468 2,062 $28,600 $24,565 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 40.2 562 2.5 475 2,054 28,716 24,914 White-collar occupations............................................ 40.1 681 2.9 605 2,024 34,332 30,808 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 39.8 708 2.9 637 1,998 35,542 31,928 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 39.6 814 2.4 779 1,943 40,005 37,219 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 39.4 880 2.6 855 1,901 42,427 38,792 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 40.4 1,079 4.7 1,062 2,101 56,083 55,245 Civil engineers............................................. 39.4 1,065 13.3 1,008 2,049 55,369 52,416 Industrial engineers........................................ 42.0 862 6.2 829 2,185 44,809 43,118 Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 40.0 1,145 7.1 1,144 2,080 59,523 59,467 Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 40.3 946 8.2 896 2,098 49,172 46,592 Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 40.6 940 11.6 750 2,113 48,883 39,000 Natural scientists............................................ 39.8 979 10.1 902 2,071 50,893 46,904 Health related occupations.................................... 39.8 801 5.5 753 2,070 41,632 39,166 Registered nurses........................................... 39.7 672 2.2 670 2,066 34,929 34,840 Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 38.2 875 5.9 889 1,575 36,047 35,829 Elementary school teachers.................................. 38.0 940 4.7 909 1,541 38,102 36,450 Secondary school teachers................................... 38.1 912 1.7 917 1,523 36,465 36,697 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 38.4 500 6.6 478 1,998 26,003 24,835 Social workers.............................................. 38.3 503 6.8 478 1,994 26,163 24,835 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 39.7 742 6.6 718 2,065 38,595 37,323 Technical occupations........................................... 40.0 621 4.0 555 2,078 32,278 28,870 Licensed practical nurses................................... 39.9 472 1.3 472 2,072 24,534 24,544 Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 39.8 547 6.3 548 2,067 28,467 28,496 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 41.0 637 14.9 566 2,133 33,135 29,432 Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 39.8 710 10.7 712 2,071 36,942 37,024 Drafters.................................................... 40.0 654 10.6 610 2,080 34,007 31,720 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 40.9 999 6.2 854 2,120 51,758 44,221 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 41.7 1,174 6.3 1,134 2,152 60,632 58,885 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 45.2 1,237 6.6 1,242 2,349 64,344 64,561 Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 40.0 891 12.1 837 2,080 46,355 43,534 Administrators, education and related fields................ 40.9 1,312 4.4 1,354 2,055 65,840 70,013 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 43.2 1,459 12.0 1,248 2,245 75,870 64,896 Management related occupations................................ 39.8 719 9.9 600 2,069 37,400 31,200 Other financial officers.................................... 38.7 647 7.3 541 2,010 33,648 28,119 Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 42.8 1,104 25.0 827 2,227 57,418 42,994 Sales occupations................................................. 41.8 522 9.3 400 2,175 27,145 20,800 Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 43.4 700 17.3 623 2,257 36,424 32,406 Sales occupations, other business services.................. 39.8 717 15.1 646 2,068 37,307 33,592 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 40.7 $795 8.1% $702 2,117 $41,334 $36,504 Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats..................... 47.7 695 6.3 588 2,479 36,119 30,576 Cashiers.................................................... 40.0 257 3.1 244 2,080 13,344 12,662 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 39.8 417 2.4 382 2,039 21,391 19,727 Secretaries................................................. 39.6 422 4.5 408 2,019 21,532 21,021 Receptionists............................................... 40.0 330 3.9 334 2,080 17,154 17,389 Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 39.1 522 17.6 404 2,031 27,169 21,008 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 40.2 445 8.1 420 2,090 23,148 21,840 Dispatchers................................................. 40.0 414 17.0 447 2,080 21,538 23,234 Production coordinators..................................... 40.3 552 5.4 550 2,095 28,701 28,579 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 40.0 411 6.7 400 2,080 21,386 20,800 Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 40.0 383 5.7 390 2,080 19,898 20,280 Meter readers............................................... 40.0 589 6.4 645 2,080 30,652 33,526 Investigators and adjusters except insurance................ 40.0 426 4.7 428 2,080 22,146 22,277 Bill and account collectors................................. 40.0 489 9.9 426 2,080 25,404 22,152 General office clerks....................................... 39.5 402 5.5 370 2,034 20,733 19,200 Bank tellers................................................ 39.2 317 2.5 301 2,039 16,483 15,662 Data entry keyers........................................... 40.0 351 3.8 340 2,080 18,244 17,680 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 39.9 397 7.6 362 2,073 20,660 18,824 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 40.8 489 2.3 455 2,122 25,422 23,650 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 40.0 596 3.4 560 2,081 30,984 29,120 Automobile mechanics........................................ 40.0 770 11.2 819 2,080 40,021 42,578 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 40.0 635 4.1 657 2,080 33,035 34,174 Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 39.5 494 7.6 444 2,052 25,693 23,088 Electrical power installers and repairers................... 40.0 568 6.2 517 2,080 29,541 26,898 Supervisors, production occupations......................... 41.2 757 8.4 692 2,143 39,348 36,005 Machinists.................................................. 40.0 602 5.4 660 2,080 31,281 34,320 Inspectors, testers, and graders............................ 40.0 486 3.7 471 2,080 25,284 24,510 Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 40.0 488 14.2 498 2,080 25,353 25,896 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 40.0 423 3.5 425 2,079 22,020 22,121 Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 40.0 440 2.7 434 2,080 22,896 22,568 Textile sewing machine operators............................ 40.0 335 4.7 362 2,080 17,415 18,838 Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 40.0 365 10.0 350 2,080 18,990 18,200 Furnace, kiln, and oven operators, except food.............. 40.0 541 7.0 602 2,080 28,125 31,283 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 40.0 442 6.6 434 2,080 23,008 22,552 Assemblers.................................................. 40.0 406 3.7 407 2,080 21,117 21,181 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 40.0 463 7.6 500 2,080 24,067 25,979 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 44.5 525 4.9 464 2,312 27,296 24,128 Truck drivers............................................... 48.2 582 7.6 642 2,507 30,247 33,404 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 40.0 444 6.5 440 2,080 23,071 22,880 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 40.1 394 4.0 375 2,085 20,501 19,482 Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm.................... 40.0 387 2.7 397 2,080 20,114 20,634 Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C.................................................... 42.5 575 13.8 555 2,212 29,902 28,834 Helpers, construction trades................................ 40.0 418 8.4 440 2,080 21,726 22,880 Construction laborers....................................... 38.8 $428 13.9% $480 2,017 $22,269 $24,980 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 40.0 359 3.7 352 2,080 18,672 18,304 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 40.3 476 9.1 496 2,096 24,761 25,779 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 40.0 326 8.3 308 2,080 16,958 16,016 Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 40.0 382 11.8 332 2,080 19,854 17,264 Service occupations................................................. 39.8 322 3.4 291 2,061 16,703 15,080 Protective service occupations................................ 41.4 442 8.6 424 2,154 22,982 22,023 Firefighting occupations.................................... 50.0 562 4.9 542 2,598 29,221 28,160 Police and detectives, public service....................... 40.7 548 5.7 516 2,118 28,508 26,831 Guards and police except public service..................... 40.0 353 20.8 294 2,080 18,376 15,288 Food service occupations...................................... 39.3 276 8.1 260 2,044 14,372 13,520 Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations....... 41.8 627 12.1 497 2,171 32,619 25,852 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 38.5 106 9.8 85 2,002 5,515 4,430 Cooks....................................................... 39.4 335 2.8 334 2,049 17,428 17,367 Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 39.1 253 2.9 244 2,033 13,143 12,705 Health service occupations.................................... 38.8 298 2.8 290 2,016 15,507 15,080 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 38.6 291 2.7 285 2,009 15,115 14,830 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 39.7 318 4.9 290 2,064 16,545 15,080 Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers.......... 39.6 375 7.9 346 2,061 19,480 17,992 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 39.8 325 6.9 302 2,067 16,920 15,704 Personal service occupations.................................. 39.6 280 5.4 266 2,000 14,125 13,624 1 Earnings are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The median designates position--one-half of the workers receive the same as or more, and one-half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and levels(2), all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Knoxville, TN, February 1999 All workers (4) All industries Occupational group(3) and level All industries Private industry State and local Full-time workers Part-time workers government Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $13.39 2.3% $12.83 2.8% $15.86 4.0% $13.87 2.4% $7.08 5.8% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 13.52 2.5 12.93 3.0 15.88 4.0 13.98 2.5 6.90 5.7 White-collar occupations............................................ 16.51 2.8 15.92 3.6 18.27 4.4 16.96 2.8 9.47 6.6 Level 1................................................... 6.34 2.1 6.22 1.8 - - 6.14 3.8 6.48 2.1 Level 2................................................... 7.22 2.7 7.11 3.2 7.62 1.3 7.25 3.2 7.08 4.0 Level 3................................................... 8.32 3.9 8.22 4.1 9.69 8.9 8.48 4.1 7.26 3.8 Level 4................................................... 9.90 1.7 9.87 2.1 10.00 2.5 9.93 1.7 9.33 8.8 Level 5................................................... 13.43 3.7 13.80 3.5 11.73 10.0 13.49 3.8 - - Level 6................................................... 14.09 3.1 14.28 3.5 13.38 4.8 14.14 3.2 - - Level 7................................................... 16.32 2.6 16.50 2.1 15.70 9.2 16.36 2.6 - - Level 8................................................... 20.15 2.0 18.42 3.1 21.73 2.2 20.26 2.1 17.95 2.7 Level 9................................................... 23.64 1.6 23.01 2.3 25.77 1.7 23.64 1.6 - - Level 10.................................................. 25.48 5.7 25.31 3.7 25.73 12.8 25.33 5.7 - - Level 11.................................................. 27.66 6.9 31.03 2.6 22.10 11.7 27.47 7.0 - - Level 12.................................................. 34.99 5.6 35.42 8.3 34.13 2.7 34.99 5.6 - - Level 13.................................................. 38.45 4.8 38.44 5.5 - - 38.45 4.8 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.41 20.8 29.02 15.8 - - 26.04 19.0 8.03 8.6 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 17.42 2.8 17.05 3.6 18.30 4.4 17.79 2.8 10.18 6.3 Level 1................................................... 6.55 4.2 - - - - - - - - Level 2................................................... 7.60 1.6 7.58 2.3 7.62 1.4 7.64 1.7 7.40 4.0 Level 3................................................... 8.82 2.1 8.73 2.0 9.72 9.1 8.92 2.1 7.72 3.2 Level 4................................................... 10.07 1.8 10.11 2.4 10.00 2.5 10.05 1.8 10.80 6.4 Level 5................................................... 13.05 3.4 13.43 2.6 11.73 10.0 13.09 3.5 - - Level 6................................................... 13.74 2.3 13.86 2.5 13.38 4.8 13.79 2.4 - - Level 7................................................... 16.30 2.8 16.50 2.3 15.70 9.2 16.34 2.8 - - Level 8................................................... 19.94 2.0 17.51 1.4 21.73 2.2 20.06 2.1 17.95 2.7 Level 9................................................... 23.70 1.6 23.07 2.3 25.77 1.7 23.70 1.6 - - Level 10.................................................. 25.34 6.4 25.00 4.1 25.73 12.8 25.17 6.4 - - Level 11.................................................. 27.03 6.9 30.28 2.2 22.10 11.7 27.04 6.9 - - Level 12.................................................. 34.99 5.6 35.42 8.3 34.13 2.7 34.99 5.6 - - Level 13.................................................. 38.45 4.8 38.44 5.5 - - 38.45 4.8 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.99 21.5 30.81 13.1 - - 26.26 20.2 8.25 12.5 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 20.41 2.4 20.32 2.8 20.59 4.4 20.59 2.4 14.87 8.5 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 22.14 2.6 22.55 3.0 21.58 4.6 22.32 2.6 16.55 8.6 Level 5................................................... 12.49 15.0 - - 11.35 18.4 12.54 15.1 - - Level 6................................................... 14.33 2.9 14.47 2.9 - - 14.67 2.8 - - Level 7................................................... 16.57 4.4 16.74 2.6 16.22 12.2 16.66 4.5 - - Level 8................................................... 20.68 2.2 17.78 1.4 22.23 2.2 20.84 2.3 18.17 3.0 Level 9................................................... 23.68 1.4 23.01 1.9 25.35 1.9 23.69 1.4 - - Level 10.................................................. 26.48 10.2 26.75 8.0 - - 26.22 10.4 - - Level 11.................................................. 26.49 8.4 30.72 2.5 - - 26.49 8.4 - - Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 26.76 4.8 26.97 4.9 - - 26.70 4.8 - - Level 7................................................... 17.07 7.5 17.07 7.5 - - 17.07 7.5 - - Level 9................................................... $22.96 4.7% $22.96 4.7% - - $22.98 4.7% - - Level 10.................................................. 28.35 6.3 - - - - - - - - Level 11.................................................. 31.40 3.5 31.40 3.5 - - 31.40 3.5 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 23.44 8.0 24.41 8.0 - - 23.44 8.0 - - Natural scientists............................................ 24.58 10.0 26.75 14.4 - - 24.58 10.0 - - Health related occupations.................................... 19.91 5.4 19.72 5.8 - - 20.11 5.4 $17.08 5.0% Level 7................................................... 16.24 2.7 16.39 2.9 - - 16.44 2.2 - - Level 8................................................... 17.71 1.6 17.64 1.9 - - 17.61 1.9 18.11 2.9 Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 22.68 6.2 - - $22.72 6.2% 22.89 6.2 - - Level 7................................................... 24.09 7.5 - - - - 24.09 7.5 - - Level 8................................................... 22.61 2.5 - - - - - - - - Level 9................................................... 25.16 2.1 - - 25.16 2.1 25.16 2.1 - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - - Social, religious, and recreation workers..................... 12.95 6.4 - - 13.63 6.8 13.02 7.2 - - Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 18.69 6.6 18.69 6.6 - - 18.69 6.6 - - Technical occupations........................................... 15.37 4.0 15.97 4.1 11.46 7.1 15.53 4.0 10.61 5.7 Level 4................................................... 10.29 2.9 11.14 2.5 - - 10.30 3.1 - - Level 5................................................... 12.45 2.2 12.60 2.1 - - 12.52 2.1 - - Level 6................................................... 14.01 2.9 14.51 1.2 - - 13.97 3.0 - - Level 7................................................... 17.89 5.2 17.89 5.2 - - 17.89 5.2 - - Level 8................................................... 17.76 3.2 17.46 2.9 - - 17.76 3.2 - - Level 9................................................... 23.61 8.9 23.61 8.9 - - 23.61 8.9 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 24.35 5.7 24.80 6.5 23.32 11.4 24.41 5.7 - - Level 5................................................... 14.80 2.5 14.87 2.5 - - 14.80 2.5 - - Level 7................................................... 13.84 3.5 - - - - 13.84 3.5 - - Level 8................................................... 17.46 4.0 16.64 4.5 18.44 4.6 17.52 4.1 - - Level 9................................................... 23.97 4.8 23.27 5.6 - - 23.97 4.8 - - Level 10.................................................. 24.02 4.5 - - - - 24.02 4.5 - - Level 11.................................................. 28.61 2.8 27.87 2.7 - - 28.74 2.9 - - Level 12.................................................. 36.63 4.4 38.18 6.0 - - 36.63 4.4 - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 28.14 5.8 27.80 7.5 29.02 7.2 28.17 5.8 - - Level 8................................................... 16.79 4.5 - - - - 16.79 4.5 - - Level 9................................................... 23.67 5.6 22.77 6.3 - - 23.67 5.6 - - Level 10.................................................. 24.02 4.5 - - - - 24.02 4.5 - - Level 11.................................................. 29.06 3.1 28.43 3.3 - - 29.06 3.1 - - Level 12.................................................. 36.63 4.4 38.18 6.0 - - 36.63 4.4 - - Management related occupations................................ 18.09 9.2 19.44 10.8 15.41 10.8 18.08 9.4 - - Level 5................................................... 13.70 2.9 - - - - 13.70 2.9 - - Level 7................................................... 13.84 3.5 - - - - 13.84 3.5 - - Level 9................................................... 24.66 8.5 - - - - 24.66 8.5 - - Sales occupations................................................. 11.93 8.3 11.95 8.4 - - 12.48 8.8 8.13 16.6 Level 2................................................... $6.43 2.7% $6.40 2.7% - - - - - - Level 3................................................... 6.83 6.4 6.81 6.4 - - $6.82 7.1% $6.85 5.4% Level 4................................................... 9.48 5.1 9.48 5.1 - - 9.61 5.3 - - Level 5................................................... 14.88 10.3 14.88 10.3 - - 15.00 10.4 - - Level 6................................................... 15.48 7.4 15.48 7.4 - - 15.48 7.4 - - Level 8................................................... 22.14 10.6 22.14 10.6 - - 22.14 10.6 - - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 10.23 2.3 10.16 2.7 $10.47 3.7% 10.49 2.3 7.48 2.0 Level 1................................................... 6.55 4.2 - - - - - - - - Level 2................................................... 7.60 1.6 7.58 2.3 7.62 1.4 7.64 1.7 7.40 4.0 Level 3................................................... 8.84 2.1 8.73 2.1 10.02 8.8 8.92 2.2 7.90 2.9 Level 4................................................... 10.01 2.0 9.97 2.7 10.09 3.0 10.01 2.0 - - Level 5................................................... 13.54 5.3 13.85 6.6 12.68 2.1 13.54 5.3 - - Level 6................................................... 13.70 3.8 13.36 4.9 14.80 3.7 13.71 3.9 - - Level 7................................................... 15.67 2.7 15.62 3.0 - - 15.67 2.7 - - Blue-collar occupations............................................... 11.85 2.2 11.81 2.4 12.31 4.9 11.98 2.3 7.27 3.2 Level 1................................................... 8.27 6.6 8.27 6.8 - - 8.63 7.6 - - Level 2................................................... 8.64 2.6 8.62 2.7 - - 8.65 2.7 - - Level 3................................................... 10.36 3.4 10.34 3.6 10.80 6.3 10.39 3.5 9.36 4.5 Level 4................................................... 11.07 2.4 11.24 2.6 9.99 3.8 11.07 2.4 - - Level 5................................................... 12.73 2.2 12.81 2.4 12.17 4.4 12.73 2.2 - - Level 6................................................... 16.14 3.4 16.32 4.0 14.69 4.9 16.14 3.4 - - Level 7................................................... 16.33 2.8 16.17 3.0 17.38 5.0 16.33 2.8 - - Level 8................................................... 22.10 3.8 22.08 4.0 - - 22.10 3.8 - - Level 9................................................... 21.37 8.1 21.05 8.0 - - 21.37 8.1 - - Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 14.89 3.3 15.13 3.8 13.79 6.0 14.89 3.3 - - Level 2................................................... 8.83 6.3 - - - - 8.83 6.3 - - Level 3................................................... 11.17 6.7 11.06 7.9 - - 11.17 6.7 - - Level 4................................................... 10.64 3.5 10.79 3.9 10.38 6.3 10.64 3.5 - - Level 5................................................... 12.59 4.2 12.73 5.3 12.25 5.6 12.59 4.2 - - Level 6................................................... 14.91 3.4 14.87 3.8 - - 14.91 3.4 - - Level 7................................................... 16.36 3.1 16.17 3.4 17.60 5.3 16.36 3.1 - - Level 8................................................... 22.10 3.8 22.08 4.0 - - 22.10 3.8 - - Level 9................................................... 21.37 8.1 21.05 8.0 - - 21.37 8.1 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.54 3.5 10.54 3.5 - - 10.59 3.5 7.24 4.0 Level 1................................................... 8.81 10.9 8.81 10.9 - - 8.90 11.4 - - Level 2................................................... 8.76 3.8 8.76 3.8 - - 8.80 3.8 - - Level 3................................................... 10.19 3.7 10.19 3.7 - - 10.22 3.6 - - Level 4................................................... 11.59 3.8 11.59 3.8 - - 11.59 3.8 - - Level 5................................................... 13.25 2.7 13.25 2.7 - - 13.25 2.7 - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 11.78 4.0 11.86 4.2 10.39 6.8 11.80 4.0 - - Level 2................................................... 9.19 7.9 9.19 7.9 - - 9.19 7.9 - - Level 3................................................... 9.94 3.4 - - - - 9.95 3.6 - - Level 4................................................... 10.85 3.9 11.00 4.4 - - 10.85 3.9 - - Level 5................................................... 11.74 2.8 11.72 2.8 - - 11.74 2.8 - - Level 6................................................... $18.57 4.7% $18.57 4.7% - - $18.57 4.7% - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 9.54 3.7 9.52 4.1 $9.69 5.5% 9.83 4.0 $7.07 3.7% Level 1................................................... 7.70 5.5 7.68 5.8 - - 8.42 6.7 - - Level 2................................................... 8.19 3.4 8.15 3.7 - - 8.15 3.6 - - Level 3................................................... 10.52 8.8 10.53 9.5 - - 10.57 9.2 - - Level 4................................................... 10.37 7.7 11.01 9.0 - - 10.37 7.7 - - Level 5................................................... 13.26 4.0 - - - - 13.26 4.0 - - Service occupations................................................. 7.51 3.1 6.85 3.5 10.17 4.3 8.10 3.4 4.71 7.2 Level 1................................................... 6.18 4.5 5.93 4.4 7.45 1.5 6.42 4.8 5.03 6.1 Level 2................................................... 5.71 7.2 5.45 7.6 8.23 4.1 6.52 4.9 3.86 12.2 Level 3................................................... 6.94 7.8 6.92 8.2 - - 7.32 7.8 4.57 13.9 Level 4................................................... 8.98 2.6 8.53 2.8 10.01 3.8 9.13 2.6 - - Level 5................................................... 12.79 6.4 - - 11.99 1.7 12.83 6.7 - - Level 6................................................... 11.49 5.5 - - 11.51 7.5 11.67 6.5 - - Level 7................................................... 13.34 6.8 - - 12.05 3.0 13.34 6.8 - - Protective service occupations.............................. 10.58 8.3 8.75 20.1 11.68 3.6 10.67 8.1 8.24 19.6 Level 4................................................... 10.17 1.2 - - 10.14 1.3 10.17 1.2 - - Level 5................................................... 13.96 8.4 - - - - - - - - Level 6................................................... 11.51 7.5 - - 11.51 7.5 11.66 8.0 - - Level 7................................................... 12.05 3.0 - - 12.05 3.0 12.05 3.0 - - Food service occupations..................................... 5.92 7.5 5.87 7.7 - - 7.03 7.5 3.70 11.0 Level 1................................................... 5.08 9.1 5.08 9.1 - - 5.30 8.9 - - Level 2................................................... 3.70 13.1 3.59 13.5 - - 4.97 18.6 3.15 15.2 Level 3................................................... 4.13 13.4 4.13 13.4 - - 4.53 12.0 - - Level 4................................................... 8.68 2.9 8.77 3.1 - - 8.85 2.7 - - Health service occupations.................................. 7.68 2.1 7.68 2.1 - - 7.69 2.3 - - Level 3................................................... 7.86 1.8 7.86 1.8 - - 7.87 2.0 - - Cleaning and building service occupations................... 7.90 5.0 7.49 5.8 8.88 6.7 8.02 4.9 - - Level 1................................................... 7.13 4.7 6.94 5.9 - - 7.32 3.2 - - Level 2................................................... 7.10 4.0 6.77 2.2 - - 7.14 3.9 - - Level 3................................................... 10.67 13.6 - - - - 10.67 13.6 - - Personal service occupations................................ 6.77 4.8 6.67 5.0 - - 7.06 5.4 6.09 5.2 Level 1................................................... 6.19 4.4 5.95 4.4 - - - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations and levels(2), all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Knoxville, TN, February 1999 All workers(4) All industries Occupation(3) and level All industries Private industry State and local Full-time workers Part-time workers government Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE White-collar occupations: Professional specialty and technical occupations: Professional specialty occupations: Civil engineers............................................. $27.70 12.1% - - - - $27.02 12.1% - - Industrial engineers........................................ 20.48 7.9 $20.48 7.9% - - 20.51 8.0 - - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 28.62 7.1 28.62 7.1 - - 28.62 7.1 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 23.14 11.6 23.38 12.2 - - 23.14 11.6 - - Registered nurses........................................... 16.97 2.1 16.87 2.2 - - 16.91 2.2 $17.37 4.0% Level 7................................................... 16.43 3.4 16.41 3.4 - - 16.62 3.0 - - Level 8................................................... 17.83 1.6 17.77 1.9 - - 17.75 2.0 18.11 2.9 Elementary school teachers.................................. 24.73 4.7 - - $24.77 4.7% 24.73 4.7 - - Level 9................................................... 24.94 2.6 - - 24.94 2.6 24.94 2.6 - - Secondary school teachers................................... 23.94 2.3 - - 23.94 2.3 23.94 2.3 - - Social workers.............................................. 13.03 6.6 - - 13.81 6.9 13.12 7.5 - - Technical occupations: Licensed practical nurses................................... 11.61 1.5 11.78 1.6 - - 11.84 1.4 - - Level 5................................................... 11.55 1.6 11.80 1.1 - - 11.65 1.4 - - Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 13.68 6.1 14.50 6.1 10.55 12.3 13.77 6.1 - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 15.53 14.4 17.37 13.7 - - 15.53 14.4 - - Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 17.84 10.6 18.29 10.9 - - 17.84 10.6 - - Drafters.................................................... 16.35 10.6 16.35 10.6 - - 16.35 10.6 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations: Administrators and officials, public administration......... 27.39 2.8 - - 27.39 2.8 27.39 2.8 - - Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 22.29 12.1 23.05 12.8 - - 22.29 12.1 - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 32.05 6.6 - - 32.05 6.6 32.05 6.6 - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 33.79 10.7 33.64 11.0 - - 33.79 10.7 - - Level 9................................................... 20.05 7.3 20.05 7.3 - - 20.05 7.3 - - Level 12.................................................. 39.91 5.3 - - - - 39.91 5.3 - - Other financial officers.................................... 16.91 6.4 15.80 7.7 - - 16.74 6.6 - - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 25.78 22.5 - - - - 25.78 22.5 - - Sales occupations: Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 16.14 15.8 16.14 15.8 - - 16.14 15.8 - - Sales occupations, other business services.................. 20.02 15.7 20.02 15.7 - - 18.04 14.9 - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 19.52 8.9 19.52 8.9 - - 19.52 8.9 - - Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats..................... 14.57 9.4 14.57 9.4 - - 14.57 9.4 - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.33 2.7 6.31 2.7 - - 6.42 3.1 6.12 2.9 Administrative support occupations, including clerical: Secretaries................................................. 10.51 4.3 10.22 6.3 10.89 6.2 10.66 4.4 - - Level 3................................................... 8.81 2.4 8.82 2.4 - - 8.97 2.6 - - Level 4................................................... 10.23 4.6 10.33 4.0 10.18 6.2 10.23 4.6 - - Level 6................................................... 13.50 1.1 - - - - 13.50 1.1 - - Receptionists............................................... 8.08 3.4 8.18 3.6 - - 8.25 3.9 - - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 13.38 17.0 13.38 17.0 - - 13.38 17.0 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.08 8.2 11.33 10.2 - - 11.08 8.2 - - Level 4................................................... 10.39 6.6 - - - - 10.39 6.6 - - Telephone operators......................................... $9.43 11.6% - - - - - - - - Dispatchers................................................. 10.35 17.0 - - - - $10.35 17.0% - - Production coordinators..................................... 13.70 5.5 $13.70 5.5% - - 13.70 5.5 - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.28 6.7 10.28 6.7 - - 10.28 6.7 - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.44 5.8 9.57 5.7 - - 9.57 5.7 - - Level 4................................................... 9.25 10.4 9.25 10.4 - - 9.25 10.4 - - Meter readers............................................... 14.74 6.4 - - $14.74 6.4% 14.74 6.4 - - Investigators and adjusters except insurance................ 10.65 4.7 10.65 4.7 - - 10.65 4.7 - - Bill and account collectors................................. 12.21 9.9 12.20 10.2 - - 12.21 9.9 - - General office clerks....................................... 10.04 5.3 10.08 6.8 9.96 8.2 10.19 5.2 - - Level 3................................................... 8.98 8.9 9.05 9.9 - - 9.32 9.3 - - Level 4................................................... 9.94 4.1 10.31 7.2 9.53 2.3 9.94 4.1 - - Bank tellers................................................ 8.08 3.1 8.08 3.1 - - 8.08 3.1 - - Data entry keyers........................................... 8.43 4.8 8.43 4.8 - - 8.77 3.8 - - Level 3................................................... 8.63 5.5 8.63 5.5 - - - - - - Teachers' aides............................................. 7.87 2.4 - - 7.87 2.4 - - - - Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 9.85 7.0 8.85 4.6 11.84 6.2 9.96 7.5 $8.78 1.7% Blue-collar occupations: Precision production, craft, and repair occupations: Automobile mechanics........................................ 19.24 11.2 - - - - 19.24 11.2 - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 15.88 4.1 15.88 4.1 - - 15.88 4.1 - - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 12.52 7.3 13.47 10.5 - - 12.52 7.3 - - Electrical power installers and repairers................... 14.20 6.2 - - 14.48 6.5 14.20 6.2 - - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 18.36 8.2 18.36 8.2 - - 18.36 8.2 - - Level 7................................................... 18.00 5.4 18.00 5.4 - - 18.00 5.4 - - Machinists.................................................. 15.04 5.4 15.04 5.4 - - 15.04 5.4 - - Inspectors, testers, and graders............................ 12.16 3.7 12.16 3.7 - - 12.16 3.7 - - Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 12.19 14.2 - - 12.19 14.2 12.19 14.2 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors: Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 11.01 2.7 11.01 2.7 - - 11.01 2.7 - - Level 4................................................... 11.41 2.3 11.41 2.3 - - 11.41 2.3 - - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 8.37 4.7 8.37 4.7 - - 8.37 4.7 - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.13 10.0 9.13 10.0 - - 9.13 10.0 - - Furnace, kiln, and oven operators, except food.............. 13.52 7.0 13.52 7.0 - - 13.52 7.0 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 10.91 6.4 10.89 6.5 - - 11.06 6.6 - - Level 2................................................... 7.50 3.0 7.50 3.0 - - - - - - Assemblers.................................................. 10.09 3.6 10.09 3.6 - - 10.15 3.7 - - Level 2................................................... 9.69 4.4 9.69 4.4 - - 9.72 4.4 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 11.23 7.7 11.23 7.7 - - 11.57 7.6 - - Transportation and material moving occupations: Truck drivers............................................... 12.04 6.7 12.10 7.0 - - 12.06 6.8 - - Level 4................................................... 10.19 4.3 10.18 4.8 - - 10.19 4.3 - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.09 6.5 11.09 6.5 - - 11.09 6.5 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers: Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm.................... $9.67 2.7% - - - - $9.67 2.7% - - Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C.................................................... 13.52 11.7 $13.56 13.0% - - 13.52 11.7 - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 10.45 8.4 10.45 8.4 - - 10.45 8.4 - - Construction laborers....................................... 11.04 15.7 - - - - 11.04 15.7 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.16 3.7 8.01 4.0 - - 8.98 3.7 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 11.19 7.5 11.19 7.5 - - 11.81 9.0 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.09 8.0 8.09 8.0 - - 8.15 8.3 - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 9.41 11.6 9.69 15.6 - - 9.55 11.8 - - Level 2................................................... 7.89 3.0 - - - - 7.89 3.0 - - Service occupations: Protective service occupations: Firefighting occupations.................................... 11.25 5.6 - - $11.25 5.6% 11.25 5.6 - - Police and detectives, public service....................... 13.46 5.8 - - 13.46 5.8 13.46 5.8 - - Guards and police except public service..................... 8.82 20.2 8.67 21.1 - - 8.83 20.8 - - Food service occupations: Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations....... 14.63 11.9 14.63 11.9 - - 15.02 12.4 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.67 8.8 2.67 8.8 - - 2.75 8.5 $2.49 11.6% Level 1................................................... 2.43 9.3 2.43 9.3 - - - - - - Level 3................................................... 2.98 12.1 2.98 12.1 - - - - - - Cooks....................................................... 8.17 4.7 8.19 5.1 - - 8.50 3.1 - - Level 4................................................... 8.90 2.8 9.04 2.8 - - 8.92 2.9 - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.27 4.4 7.31 4.4 - - - - - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 4.43 14.8 4.35 15.4 - - 6.46 3.3 - - Level 1................................................... 6.18 3.9 6.18 3.9 - - 6.34 4.4 - - Health service occupations: Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 7.54 2.1 7.54 2.1 - - 7.53 2.2 - - Level 3................................................... 7.70 1.6 7.70 1.6 - - 7.68 1.8 - - Cleaning and building service occupations: Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers.......... 9.45 8.2 - - - - 9.45 8.2 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.97 7.1 7.91 9.4 8.11 8.5 8.19 6.8 - - Level 1................................................... 7.12 5.5 6.85 7.4 - - 7.35 3.8 - - Level 2................................................... 6.50 1.5 6.50 1.5 - - 6.59 1.0 - - Level 3................................................... 10.87 13.7 - - - - 10.87 13.7 - - Personal service occupations: Supervisors, personal service occupations................... 8.43 9.4 - - - - - - - - Service occupations, N.E.C.................................. 6.08 5.2 6.08 5.2 - - - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Each occupation for which wage data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries, Knoxville, TN, February 1999 Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) Occupational group(2) 3) 3) 3) 3) Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $13.87 $7.08 $13.29 $13.40 $13.36 $13.94 2.4% 5.8% 3.1% 2.6% 2.4% 5.2% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 13.98 6.90 13.28 13.55 13.56 12.68 2.5 5.7 3.1 2.7 2.5 8.0 White-collar occupations............................................ 16.96 9.47 13.70 16.61 16.60 15.12 2.8 6.6 5.6 2.9 3.0 7.8 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 17.79 10.18 13.62 17.59 17.47 13.16 2.8 6.3 5.5 2.9 2.8 4.4 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 20.59 14.87 15.06 20.66 20.47 - 2.4 8.5 6.0 2.4 2.4 - Professional specialty occupations.............................. 22.32 16.55 - 22.21 22.19 - 2.6 8.6 - 2.7 2.6 - Technical occupations........................................... 15.53 10.61 13.53 15.63 15.43 - 4.0 5.7 4.1 4.2 4.0 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 24.41 - - 24.35 24.35 - 5.7 - - 5.7 5.7 - Sales occupations................................................. 12.48 8.13 - 11.91 10.21 15.46 8.8 16.6 - 8.4 9.2 8.8 Administrative support including clerical occupations............. 10.49 7.48 11.71 10.15 10.15 - 2.3 2.0 9.4 2.3 2.3 - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 11.98 7.27 13.31 11.43 11.76 13.03 2.3 3.2 3.2 2.7 2.2 9.8 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 14.89 - 16.17 14.62 14.76 15.75 3.3 - 3.5 3.9 3.5 8.6 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.59 7.24 11.99 9.92 10.69 8.80 3.5 4.0 3.5 4.6 3.5 11.4 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 11.80 - 15.48 10.91 11.74 - 4.0 - 9.5 3.9 4.0 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 9.83 7.07 10.93 9.18 9.38 - 4.0 3.7 4.1 4.5 3.6 - Service occupations................................................. 8.10 4.71 - 7.48 7.48 - 3.4 7.2 - 3.1 3.1 - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers' wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-2. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers(2), Knoxville, TN, February 1999 All All private Goods-producing indust- pri- Goods-producing indust- industries ries(4) Service-producing industries(5) vate ries(4) Service-producing industries(5) indus- tries Trans- Fin- Trans- Fin- Occupational group(3) port- Whole- ance, port- Whole- ance, Con- Manu- ation sale in- Con- Manu- ation sale in- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and and sur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and and sur- Serv- tion turing public retail ance, ices tion turing public retail ance, ices Mean util- trade and RSE util- trade and ities real ities real estate estate Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $12.83 $14.87 - $13.07 $15.12 $11.71 $14.86 - $10.26 $12.61 2.8% 2.7% - 6.2% 2.9% 4.4% 5.0% - 7.7% 7.4% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 12.93 14.80 - 13.07 15.05 11.74 14.46 - 10.45 12.59 3.0 2.7 - 6.2 2.9 5.0 4.8 - 8.5 7.5 White-collar occupations............................................ 15.92 21.41 - 16.81 21.63 14.36 17.98 - 10.20 16.47 3.6 4.3 - 18.0 4.3 4.9 10.2 - 7.7 6.1 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 17.05 21.51 - 16.81 21.75 15.39 17.22 - 10.38 16.50 3.6 4.4 - 18.0 4.4 5.3 10.1 - 8.5 6.1 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 20.32 25.16 - - 25.28 18.40 17.24 - - 18.49 2.8 4.3 - - 4.4 4.0 4.1 - - 4.4 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 22.55 27.59 - - 27.65 20.40 - - - 20.37 3.0 4.4 - - 4.4 4.1 - - - 4.3 Technical occupations........................................... 15.97 19.58 - - 19.74 14.74 15.45 - - 14.59 4.1 6.5 - - 6.5 3.5 9.4 - - 3.9 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 24.80 26.79 - - 26.43 23.67 25.78 - 16.05 28.02 6.5 8.0 - - 8.6 8.8 33.7 - 8.0 10.3 Sales occupations................................................. 11.95 19.50 - - 19.50 11.56 23.47 - - - 8.4 18.7 - - 18.7 8.7 12.5 - - - Administrative support, including clerical occupations............ 10.16 12.61 - - 12.78 9.45 12.79 - 8.36 9.57 2.7 4.7 - - 4.9 2.7 6.8 - 1.7 3.7 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 11.81 12.22 - 12.61 12.14 11.02 13.08 - - 8.64 2.4 2.4 - 4.4 2.7 4.9 5.7 - - 6.0 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 15.13 15.30 - 13.78 16.04 14.61 14.97 - - 13.40 3.8 4.3 - 5.1 5.0 8.6 9.9 - - 9.2 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.54 10.93 - - 10.93 7.51 - - - - 3.5 2.9 - - 2.9 5.5 - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 11.86 11.28 - - 11.29 12.09 13.30 - - - 4.2 4.4 - - 7.4 5.6 6.5 - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 9.52 10.51 - 10.18 10.59 8.63 11.77 - - 7.19 4.1 4.7 - 9.7 5.4 5.6 9.0 - - 4.1 Service occupations................................................. 6.85 12.95 - - 12.95 6.56 - - - 7.03 3.5 9.1 - - 9.1 2.9 - - - 2.5 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 5 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and establishment employment size, private industry, all workers(2), Knoxville, TN, February 1999 All All private Mean private RSE industry industry workers workers Occupational group(3) 100 workers or more 100 workers or more Mean 50 - 99 RSE 50 - 99 workers 100 - 499 500 workers 100 - 499 500 Total workers workers Total workers workers or more or more All occupations....................................................... $12.83 $11.25 $13.36 $12.22 $15.71 2.8% 6.2% 3.2% 4.9% 3.6% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 12.93 11.18 13.44 12.28 15.63 3.0 7.1 3.3 5.2 3.6 White-collar occupations............................................ 15.92 13.86 16.55 15.10 19.42 3.6 9.4 4.2 6.5 4.3 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 17.05 15.70 17.32 16.04 19.35 3.6 12.1 3.8 6.4 4.4 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 20.32 21.49 20.21 19.49 21.12 2.8 11.5 2.9 4.0 4.8 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 22.55 22.11 22.59 21.84 23.59 3.0 13.2 3.0 3.7 5.6 Technical occupations........................................... 15.97 19.78 15.71 14.62 16.91 4.1 10.9 4.2 3.2 7.0 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 24.80 29.99 23.53 22.38 25.50 6.5 15.9 6.7 8.8 10.0 Sales occupations................................................. 11.95 11.56 12.29 11.70 - 8.4 11.6 13.0 13.4 - Administrative support, including clerical occupations............ 10.16 9.66 10.33 9.48 12.29 2.7 5.4 3.3 2.8 5.8 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 11.81 11.06 12.05 11.14 13.78 2.4 5.5 2.7 3.2 3.9 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 15.13 13.95 15.58 14.06 17.60 3.8 9.4 4.3 3.9 5.4 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.54 10.72 10.50 10.04 11.17 3.5 8.8 3.7 5.9 2.8 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 11.86 10.23 12.56 11.33 17.60 4.2 8.7 4.6 3.8 5.6 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 9.52 8.63 9.92 9.64 10.82 4.1 7.5 4.8 5.6 7.1 Service occupations................................................. 6.85 6.50 7.01 6.99 7.07 3.5 6.4 4.4 2.8 16.1 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-4. Number of workers(1) represented by occupational group, Knoxville, TN, February 1999 All workers All indus- Private State and All indus- Private State and Occupational group(2) tries industry local tries industry local government government Workers RSE All occupations....................................................... 152,052 121,925 30,127 3.3% 4.0% 4.6% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 139,603 109,556 30,047 3.5 4.3 4.5 White-collar occupations............................................ 75,810 55,062 20,748 5.3 6.9 7.0 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 63,361 42,693 20,668 5.7 7.8 6.9 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 33,480 20,523 12,957 9.0 13.0 10.6 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 25,519 13,641 11,878 9.9 15.5 11.5 Technical occupations........................................... 7,961 6,882 1,079 13.7 15.1 31.1 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 7,962 5,508 2,454 12.1 13.8 24.1 Sales occupations................................................. 12,449 12,369 - 14.0 14.1 - Administrative support including clerical occupations............. 21,918 16,661 5,257 8.6 10.1 15.9 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 46,569 42,408 4,161 6.7 7.2 14.9 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 13,486 11,027 2,459 12.0 14.0 18.6 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 15,607 15,574 - 10.7 10.7 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 8,157 7,492 665 17.3 18.5 38.9 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 9,318 8,315 1,003 12.2 12.9 35.4 Service occupations................................................. 29,673 24,455 5,218 10.9 12.6 18.2 1 Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another establishment, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size, and number of establishments represented, Knoxville, TN, February 1999 Number of establishments studied Number of Industry establish- 100 workers or more ments rep- Total 50 - 99 resented studied workers Total 100 - 499 500 workers workers or more All industries........................................................ 870 188 62 126 90 36 Private industry.................................................... 828 157 58 99 76 23 Goods-producing industries........................................ 203 58 15 43 29 14 Mining.......................................................... 1 1 1 - - - Construction.................................................... 47 8 4 4 3 1 Manufacturing................................................... 155 49 10 39 26 13 Service-producing industries...................................... 625 99 43 56 47 9 Tranportation and public utilities.............................. 54 13 2 11 9 2 Wholesale and retail trade...................................... 314 35 25 10 9 1 Finance, insurance and real estate.............................. 25 6 2 4 3 1 Services........................................................ 232 45 14 31 26 5 State and local government.......................................... 42 31 4 27 14 13 NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers(2), Knoxville, TN, February 1999 All State and Occupation(3) indus- Private local tries industry govern- ment All occupations....................................................... 2.3 2.8 4.0 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 2.5 3.0 4.0 White-collar occupations............................................ 2.8 3.6 4.4 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 2.8 3.6 4.4 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 2.4 2.8 4.4 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 2.6 3.0 4.6 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 4.8 4.9 - Civil engineers............................................. 12.1 - - Industrial engineers........................................ 7.9 7.9 - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 7.1 7.1 - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 8.0 8.0 - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 11.6 12.2 - Natural scientists............................................ 10.0 14.4 - Health related occupations.................................... 5.4 5.8 - Registered nurses........................................... 2.1 2.2 - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 6.2 - 6.2 Elementary school teachers.................................. 4.7 - 4.7 Secondary school teachers................................... 2.3 - 2.3 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 6.4 - 6.8 Social workers.............................................. 6.6 - 6.9 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 6.6 6.6 - Technical occupations........................................... 4.0 4.1 7.1 Licensed practical nurses................................... 1.5 1.6 - Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 6.1 6.1 12.3 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 14.4 13.7 - Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 10.6 10.9 - Drafters.................................................... 10.6 10.6 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 5.7 6.5 11.4 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 5.8 7.5 7.2 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 2.8 - 2.8 Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 12.1 12.8 - Administrators, education and related fields................ 6.6 - 6.6 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 10.7 11.0 - Management related occupations................................ 9.2 10.8 10.8 Other financial officers.................................... 6.4 7.7 - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 22.5 - - Sales occupations................................................. 8.3 8.4 - Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 15.8 15.8 - Sales occupations, other business services.................. 15.7 15.7 - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 8.9 8.9 - Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats..................... 9.4 9.4 - Cashiers.................................................... 2.7 2.7 - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 2.3 2.7 3.7 Secretaries................................................. 4.3 6.3 6.2 Receptionists............................................... 3.4 3.6 - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 17.0 17.0 - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 8.2 10.2 - Telephone operators......................................... 11.6 - - Dispatchers................................................. 17.0 - - Production coordinators..................................... 5.5 5.5 - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 6.7 6.7 - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 5.8 5.7 - Meter readers............................................... 6.4 - 6.4 Investigators and adjusters except insurance................ 4.7 4.7 - Bill and account collectors................................. 9.9 10.2 - General office clerks....................................... 5.3 6.8 8.2 Bank tellers................................................ 3.1 3.1 - Data entry keyers........................................... 4.8 4.8 - Teachers' aides............................................. 2.4 - 2.4 Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 7.0 4.6 6.2 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 2.2 2.4 4.9 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 3.3 3.8 6.0 Automobile mechanics........................................ 11.2 - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 4.1 4.1 - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 7.3 10.5 - Electrical power installers and repairers................... 6.2 - 6.5 Supervisors, production occupations......................... 8.2 8.2 - Machinists.................................................. 5.4 5.4 - Inspectors, testers, and graders............................ 3.7 3.7 - Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 14.2 - 14.2 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 3.5 3.5 - Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 2.7 2.7 - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 4.7 4.7 - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 10.0 10.0 - Furnace, kiln, and oven operators, except food.............. 7.0 7.0 - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 6.4 6.5 - Assemblers.................................................. 3.6 3.6 - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 7.7 7.7 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 4.0 4.2 6.8 Truck drivers............................................... 6.7 7.0 - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 6.5 6.5 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 3.7 4.1 5.5 Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm.................... 2.7 - - Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C.................................................... 11.7 13.0 - Helpers, construction trades................................ 8.4 8.4 - Construction laborers....................................... 15.7 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 3.7 4.0 - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 7.5 7.5 - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.0 8.0 - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 11.6 15.6 - Service occupations................................................. 3.1 3.5 4.3 Protective service occupations................................ 8.3 20.1 3.6 Firefighting occupations.................................... 5.6 - 5.6 Police and detectives, public service....................... 5.8 - 5.8 Guards and police except public service..................... 20.2 21.1 - Food service occupations...................................... 7.5 7.7 - Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations....... 11.9 11.9 - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 8.8 8.8 - Cooks....................................................... 4.7 5.1 - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 4.4 4.4 - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 14.8 15.4 - Health service occupations.................................... 2.1 2.1 - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 2.1 2.1 - Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 5.0 5.8 6.7 Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers.......... 8.2 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.1 9.4 8.5 Personal service occupations.................................. 4.8 5.0 - Supervisors, personal service occupations................... 9.4 - - Service occupations, N.E.C.................................. 5.2 5.2 - 1 The relative standard error is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. Hourly earnings for these occupations are presented in Tables A-1 and A-2. Reliable relative standard errors could not be determined for all occupations. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Knoxville, TN, February 1999 All Full-t- Part-ti- Occupation(1) workers ime me workers workers All occupations....................................................... 5 5 3 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 5 5 3 White-collar occupations............................................ 6 7 4 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 7 7 4 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 8 8 7 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 9 9 7 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 10 10 - Civil engineers............................................. 9 9 - Industrial engineers........................................ 8 8 - Engineers, N.E.C............................................ 11 11 - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 9 9 - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 9 9 - Natural scientists............................................ 10 10 - Health related occupations.................................... 8 8 8 Registered nurses........................................... 8 8 8 Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 8 8 - Elementary school teachers.................................. 8 8 - Secondary school teachers................................... 8 8 - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 7 7 - Social workers.............................................. 7 7 - Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... 7 7 - Technical occupations........................................... 6 6 5 Licensed practical nurses................................... 5 5 - Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 6 6 - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 6 6 - Engineering technicians, N.E.C.............................. 8 8 - Drafters.................................................... 6 6 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 9 9 - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 10 10 - Administrators and officials, public administration......... 11 11 - Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 9 9 - Administrators, education and related fields................ 11 11 - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 11 11 - Management related occupations................................ 8 8 - Other financial officers.................................... 7 7 - Management related occupations, N.E.C....................... 9 9 - Sales occupations................................................. 5 5 3 Supervisors, sales occupations.............................. 7 7 - Sales occupations, other business services.................. 7 7 - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 6 6 - Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats..................... 5 5 - Cashiers.................................................... 2 2 2 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 4 4 2 Secretaries................................................. 4 4 - Receptionists............................................... 3 3 - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 4 4 - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 4 4 - Telephone operators......................................... 3 - - Dispatchers................................................. 4 4 - Production coordinators..................................... 6 6 - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 4 4 - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 3 3 - Meter readers............................................... 5 5 - Investigators and adjusters except insurance................ 5 5 - Bill and account collectors................................. 4 4 - General office clerks....................................... 4 4 - Bank tellers................................................ 3 3 - Data entry keyers........................................... 3 3 - Teachers' aides............................................. 2 - - Administrative support occupations, N.E.C................... 4 4 2 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 4 4 2 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 6 6 - Automobile mechanics........................................ 7 7 - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 6 6 - Mechanics and repairers, N.E.C.............................. 5 5 - Electrical power installers and repairers................... 5 5 - Supervisors, production occupations......................... 7 7 - Machinists.................................................. 6 6 - Inspectors, testers, and graders............................ 5 5 - Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 5 5 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 3 3 2 Fabricating machine operators, N.E.C........................ 4 4 - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 3 3 - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 2 2 - Furnace, kiln, and oven operators, except food.............. 5 5 - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 3 3 - Assemblers.................................................. 3 3 - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 4 4 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 4 4 - Truck drivers............................................... 4 4 - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 4 4 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 3 3 2 Groundskeepers and gardeners except farm.................... 3 3 - Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, N.E.C.................................................... 6 6 - Helpers, construction trades................................ 3 3 - Construction laborers....................................... 2 2 - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 2 2 - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 3 4 - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 2 2 - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 2 2 - Service occupations................................................. 3 3 2 Protective service occupations................................ 5 5 4 Firefighting occupations.................................... 7 7 - Police and detectives, public service....................... 7 7 - Guards and police except public service..................... 3 3 - Food service occupations...................................... 3 3 2 Supervisors, food preparation and service occupations....... 6 6 - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2 2 2 Cooks....................................................... 4 4 - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 2 - - Food preparation occupations, N.E.C......................... 2 2 - Health service occupations.................................... 3 3 - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 3 3 - Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 2 2 - Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers.......... 3 3 - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 2 2 - Personal service occupations.................................. 2 3 2 Supervisors, personal service occupations................... 5 - - Service occupations, N.E.C.................................. 2 - - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. The occupations titled authors, musicians, actors, painters, photographers, dancers, artists, athletes, and legislators cannot be assigned a work level. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Supplemental Table 1. Hourly earnings(1) for construction trades occupations in construction industries(2), Knoxville, TN, February 1999 All workers(4) Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupational group(3) and level Middle Range Middle Range Middle Range Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median 25 75 25 75 25 75 Construction trades occupations....................................... $13.17 4.2% $13.00 $11.00 $15.00 $13.17 4.2% $13.00 $11.00 $15.00 - - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. At the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. The middle range is defined by two rates of pay; at the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown; at the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. 2 The Standard Industrial Classification Manual was used in classifying establishments by industry. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Supplemental Table 2. Hourly earnings(1) for construction trades occupations in non-construction industries(2), Knoxville, TN, February 1999 All workers(4) Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupational group(3) and level Middle Range Middle Range Middle Range Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median 25 75 25 75 25 75 Construction trades occupations....................................... $13.22 6.5% $12.62 $11.45 $16.57 $13.22 6.5% $12.62 $11.45 $16.57 - - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. At the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. The middle range is defined by two rates of pay; at the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown; at the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. 2 The Standard Industrial Classification Manual was used in classifying establishments by industry. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Supplemental Table 3. Number of workers in construction trades occupations, Knoxville, TN, February 1999 Workers RSE Construction industries(2) Non-construction Construction industries(2) Non-construction Occupational group(1) and level industries(2) industries(2) All Full-time Part-time All Full-time Part-time All Full-time Part-time All Full-time Part-time workers(- workers workers workers(- workers workers workers(- workers workers workers(- workers workers 3) 3) 3) 3) Construction trades occupations....................................... 2,420 2,420 - 1,088 1,088 - 44.4% 44.4% - 43.0% 43.0% - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 2 The Standard Industrial Classification Manual was used in classifying establishments by industry. 3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data±at the quote level±with the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation.